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New Headphones day.
Sennheiser HD600.
One of the best gear purchases I have made.
Convinced the wife I absolutely neeeeed them, as ya do.
But yeah, flat frequency, clear as crystal, plenty of detail and all that. But the sound stage with these things is very impressive.
Stereo imaging in other words.
Probably won't be mixing with monitors again.
Open backs and very comfortable. Forget you're wearing them after a while.

griff7628 wrote:New Headphones day.
Sennheiser HD600.
One of the best gear purchases I have made.
Convinced the wife I absolutely neeeeed them, as ya do.
But yeah, flat frequency, clear as crystal, plenty of detail and all that. But the sound stage with these things is very impressive.
Stereo imaging in other words.
Probably won't be mixing with monitors again.
Open backs and very comfortable. Forget you're wearing them after a while.

HD600 here too. Not much good as monitors but my favourite 'phones. I spent a week with the 600's and the 650's before deciding I liked the 600's better. Do you have a decent headphone amp? If your signal source is good, the HPamp will give you another level.

It's funny you bring that up about the amp. I use an audient interface. So I emailed the Audient crew asking about powering them straight off the interface and they said no problem there.
So, while they do indeed get very loud off the interface, I have no idea if a dedicated power amp will make them sound better. What do you reckon Slowy? Any recommendations for an amp that wont cost a shit tonne?

Apparently the sensitivity of the cans mean more than the impedance rating. I dunno.

griff7628 wrote:It's funny you bring that up about the amp. I use an audient interface. So I emailed the Audient crew asking about powering them straight off the interface and they said no problem there.
So, while they do indeed get very loud off the interface, I have no idea if a dedicated power amp will make them sound better. What do you reckon Slowy? Any recommendations for an amp that wont cost a shit tonne?

How are the headphone amps in the Audient, Griff? Im still get a bare bones recording setup together. I grabbed the Audient Ben was selling but havnt had a chance to test. Would be nice to be able to work with cans from time to time.

griff7628 wrote:New Headphones day.
Sennheiser HD600.
One of the best gear purchases I have made.
Convinced the wife I absolutely neeeeed them, as ya do.
But yeah, flat frequency, clear as crystal, plenty of detail and all that. But the sound stage with these things is very impressive.
Stereo imaging in other words.
Probably won't be mixing with monitors again.
Open backs and very comfortable. Forget you're wearing them after a while.

Not sure if your just doing it for yourself or not but getting it to sound right on one set of headphones could make it unlistenable on anybody else's system
don't you have to think of the lowest common denominator as well

kwhelan wrote:

griff7628 wrote:New Headphones day.
Sennheiser HD600.
One of the best gear purchases I have made.
Convinced the wife I absolutely neeeeed them, as ya do.
But yeah, flat frequency, clear as crystal, plenty of detail and all that. But the sound stage with these things is very impressive.
Stereo imaging in other words.
Probably won't be mixing with monitors again.
Open backs and very comfortable. Forget you're wearing them after a while.

Not sure if your just doing it for yourself or not but getting it to sound right on one set of headphones could make it unlistenable on anybody else's system
don't you have to think of the lowest common denominator as well

Absolutely. While I am a fair way off letting my stuff get playtime on my friends stereos, I bounce parts back and forth between our home stereo and some cheaper headphones. It translates pretty well. Like I said, the sound stage is good, so gets it pretty close.

dayl wrote:

griff7628 wrote:It's funny you bring that up about the amp. I use an audient interface. So I emailed the Audient crew asking about powering them straight off the interface and they said no problem there.
So, while they do indeed get very loud off the interface, I have no idea if a dedicated power amp will make them sound better. What do you reckon Slowy? Any recommendations for an amp that wont cost a shit tonne?

How are the headphone amps in the Audient, Griff? Im still get a bare bones recording setup together. I grabbed the Audient Ben was selling but havnt had a chance to test. Would be nice to be able to work with cans from time to time.

It's not bad aye. It certainly gets very loud so no problems there, but not sure how it would compare in terms of fidelity compared to a dedicated amp. Not much difference I would imagine, as the Audient has a good sensitivity rating I believe.

cool, bro. Thanks. Cant wait to get this this jammin.

All good. Man the Audient has a great preamp aye. I've been cranking it to about 2 o'clock and getting some nice soft clipping. Much further though and it introduces noise if you're going for high gain guitar.